The past few days have been a wild ride for the growing open source AI community — even by its fast-moving and freewheeling standards. Here’s the quick chronology: on or about January 28, a user with …
Mastercard jumps into generative AI race
Payments giant Mastercard says it has built its own proprietary generative artificial intelligence model to help thousands of banks in its network detect and root out fraudulent transactions. The …
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ChatGPT violated European privacy laws, Italy tells chatbot maker Open
Italian regulators said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority, known as …
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Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI
Microsoft and OpenAI are said to be exploring options to invest up to $500 million in a humanoid robotics startup, Bloomberg reported. The tech heavyweights are in talks with Figure AI, which wants to …
Google Splits Up a Key AI Ethics Watchdog
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed his workers the company priorities for 2024 this month, developing AI responsibly was top of the list. Some employees now wonder if Google can live up to that …
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Ripple co-founder reports unauthorized access to some personal XRP accounts
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been "unauthorized access" to "a few of my personal XRP accounts." His comments followed a post on X from crypto sleuth ZachXBT, who said …
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DeFi Protocol Abracadabra Finance Suffers $6.5 Million Hack
Digital assets associated with the decentralized finance (DeFi) project Abracadabra Finance, including its Magic Internet Money (MIM) stablecoin, values fell after its team confirmed an exploit of the …
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Musk’s Neuralink implants brain chip in its first human subject
Brain chip start-up Neuralink implanted a device in its first live human subject Sunday, Elon Musk, the company’s founder, said on social media. The patient “is recovering well,” Musk wrote Monday, …
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Meta’s OK-Robot performs zero-shot pick-and-drop in unseen environments
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be …
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Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I.
In September, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona created a first-of-its-kind job at the hospital system: chief artificial intelligence officer. Doctors at the Arizona site, which has facilities in Phoenix and …
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